Mother Indicted In Death

DIGEST

October 11, 1988|Staff reports

A Broward Circuit Court grand jury on Monday indicted Jennifer Pray on charges of first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse in the beating death of her 6-month-old daughter, who was born with AIDS.

The Hollywood woman`s daughter, Renee, died at Memorial Hospital in Hollywood on Aug. 16, where she was taken by ambulance after her father reported that she had stopped breathing.

The Broward Medical Examiner`s Office ruled the infant`s death a homicide after an autopsy showed that her skull was fractured. Pray, 29, told police the injury may have occurred while the child was in the hospital.